40 Fun Facts About Bad Kitty

Who writes and illustrates the Bad Kitty books, and even drew himself into Drawn to Trouble?

Nick Bruel named the forgetful but kind Uncle Murray after his own real-life uncle of the same name.

The first Bad Kitty picture book, where a hungry Kitty wrecks the house, sorts her misdeeds by what?

The alphabet runs through the book four times: once for the foods Kitty hates, once for her rampage, once for the treats she loves and once for her good deeds.

In the first Bad Kitty book, Kitty turns bad when her owners can offer her only which kind of food?

Vegetables are all her owners have left after running out of cat food, and Kitty only calms down when they return from the grocery store with treats.

In Bad Kitty Takes the Test, which document does Kitty lose after tumbling out of a tree?

Her cat license is revoked by the Society of Cat Aptitude Management, whose initials spell SCAM, and only a class and an exam can win it back.

Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble doubles as a funny guide that teaches young readers how to do what?

Write a story of your own, the book urges, after using a reluctant Kitty to explain character, plot, theme and conflict.

In Bad Kitty School Daze, Kitty and Puppy's constant fighting gets them sent to what kind of school?

Obedience school proves gentler than it sounds: the teacher at Diabla Von Gloom's School for Wayward Pets insists there is no such thing as a bad pet.

What does Kitty proudly present to the class at show and tell in Bad Kitty School Daze?

A hairball is the talent Kitty chooses to show off, yet her kindly teacher ends the day admiring Kitty's good qualities all the same.

In Bad Kitty Takes the Test, classmate Mittens wears fake cat ears to hide being what animal?

A chicken is under those ears, and a second one later turns up to run the final exam with an agenda of its own.

In Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, Kitty finally picks up the baby and runs off when it is time for what?

A bath is the thing Kitty dreads most, with a whole earlier book devoted to her fight against one, so she whisks the baby away.

In Bad Kitty School Daze, the classmate who believes he is a mutant supervillain is what kind of animal?

A rabbit is all Dr. Lagomorph is: his one supervillain power is turning himself into a bunny, and his name is the biological term for the group rabbits belong to.

In Bad Kitty School Daze, cat-hating classmate Petunia decides that Kitty is really which animal?

A cow is what Petunia takes Kitty for at circle time, a mix-up that comes as a relief to a cat sharing a classroom with a sworn cat-hater.

Petunia, the classmate who hates cats in Bad Kitty School Daze, is which breed of dog?

Bulldog Petunia looks fierce but turns out to be a softy, and she returns in Puppy's Big Day with bows on her ears and romantic dreams.

In Bad Kitty School Daze, the School for Wayward Pets resembles what kind of building?

A haunted mansion is how the school looks, yet the gloomy building hides a patient, kind teacher, one of several ways the book upends expectations.

In Bad Kitty School Daze, quiet Puppy surprises the class with a gift for which subjects?

Art and music bring out a hidden talent in Puppy, a twist the book uses to show that appearances can deceive.

The first cover design for Bad Kitty School Daze was dropped because schools rarely still have what?

Blackboards featured in the original design, with Kitty chalking the title beside rude remarks about her teacher, but kids might not have recognized one.

In Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, what do Kitty's friends stage, only for the baby to beat them all?

An Olympic Games for cats, billed as the Pussycat Olympics, ends with Kitty beaten even in her best events, which sets off a full-blown temper tantrum.

In Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, what does Kitty's owner reveal about the baby that melts Kitty's anger?

She was adopted, the owner explains, and needs love just as Kitty does, news that moves the furious cat to tears.

In Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, whom must Kitty's pet sitter call out several days in a row?

Firefighters are summoned day after day, and the book's bonus chapters explain why cats that climb trees so often get stuck up there.

Strange Kitty, who teaches the class in Bad Kitty Takes the Test, is known for reading what?

Comic books earned him the 'strange' label, since he would rather read them than chase mice, and he is one of the few animals in the series who talks.

Bad Kitty Takes the Test repeats an unproven tale that which scientist invented the cat door?

Isaac Newton gets the credit in an anecdote the book admits is unproven, told alongside true accounts such as the first cat sent into space.

In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, the author draws which object so readers can see how handsome he is?

A mirror follows an even odder request: the author first invites readers to smell the paper, or to download a paper-smelling app if they are reading on a screen.

In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, the author proposes a recovery diet for Kitty made entirely of what?

Turnips are the author's cure, and the book closes with a real recipe for roasting them, though Kitty soon talks him into bringing her usual feast back.

In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, what blocks the door when Kitty packs her bags to leave home?

A giant octopus is the author's way of keeping his star in the book: it forces Kitty straight back inside.

Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, where the author torments his own star, pays homage to which cartoons?

Looney Tunes cartoons inspired the book, a debt the author admits near the end when one of the cats accuses him of copying them.

In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, Puppy gobbles all of Kitty's dinner to play which role in a plot?

The antagonist is whoever stands in the hero's way, and Puppy fills the part so well that Kitty faints from shock.

At the start of Bad Kitty Takes the Test, Kitty climbs a tree hoping to play with what?

Two birds lure her up, and the fall that follows makes her rethink her fondness for them and brings a stern letter from the cat authorities.

Bad Kitty Takes the Test shares the true tale of which agency's failed bid to train cats as spies?

The CIA launched Project Acoustic Kitty in the 1960s, hoping cats fitted with hidden microphones could eavesdrop on Soviet embassies.

Kitty, the black cat of the Bad Kitty books, has a small tuft of white fur on which body part?

Her chest carries the only white fur she has, a detail borrowed from Zou-zou, a cat the author owned as a child.

In the Bad Kitty chapter books, Uncle Murray regularly interrupts the plot to share what?

Real facts about cats fill his Fun Facts pages, which have tackled what felines fear and why they so rarely get along with dogs.

In Bad Kitty for President, Kitty runs for office because she is fed up with which newcomers?

Stray cats wandering into her neighborhood push Kitty to seek the presidency of the Neighborhood Cat Club, a job she first tries to claim by simply crowning herself.

Chatty Kitty, whose meows the Bad Kitty books translate in footnotes, belongs to which cat breed?

Siamese Chatty Kitty is the neighborhood's biggest talker, and her debut book ends with an appendix explaining the breed of every feline guest.

Big Kitty, Stinky Kitty and the rest of Bad Kitty's cat friends first appear as guests at what?

A birthday party for Kitty brings the whole gang together, though the presents they bring keep vanishing and the day ends in a major freakout.

In Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet, what does Kitty stop doing that convinces her owner she is ill?

Eating is Kitty's great talent, since she once downed a meatloaf the size of a car in five minutes, so a full bowl means something is badly wrong.

In A Bad Kitty Christmas, an old woman teaches runaway Kitty that the holiday is really about what?

Family is the lesson, and it comes true for the teacher herself: the old woman who takes Kitty in ends up joining the household.

In Bad Kitty Camp Daze, a catnip vision of which Egyptian goddess reminds Kitty who she really is?

Bastet, the Egyptian protector of cats, snaps Kitty out of believing she is a dog, a mix-up that began when her own food bowl bounced off her head.

In Bad Kitty: Kitten Trouble, Kitty plots revenge on which regular visitor to her home?

The paperboy hits Kitty with the newspaper every day, yet by the end of the book she has made friends with him.

In the Bad Kitty picture book Poor Puppy, Puppy dreams of bobbing for apples in which faraway place?

Antarctica is the first stop in a dream that carries Puppy and Kitty all the way to Zimbabwe, where the pair zig-zag alongside a zebra.

Which company announced in 2022 that it would turn the Bad Kitty books into an animated TV series?

Boat Rocker, whose shows include Dino Ranch, took on the project, and the author joked that Kitty greeted the news with a yawn.

In which country is Bad Kitty known as Gatinha, according to her creator?

Brazil knows her as Gatinha, while German editions keep the English name, a quirk the author himself greeted with a shrug.

The American Library Association put Bad Kitty on its 2010–2019 list of the 100 books most what?

Challenged titles were tallied from censorship reports sent to the association, and the Captain Underpants series landed on the same list.